Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: How many animals are used for scientific/medical research? There were 2.76m ...
How many animals are used for scientific/medical research?
There were 2.76m procedures last year, a 10% fall on 2021 and the lowest since 2002. Some 96% of experiments were described as ‘non-recovery’, sub-threshold, mild or moderate; 4% were ‘severe’. The number of individual creatures used were:
-Mice 596,800 -Zebra fish 108,446 -Rat 31,711 -Fowl 5,344 -Sheep 1,512 -Frog/toad 1,155 -Hamster 988 -Cattle 648 -Rabbit 616 -Pig 544 -Guinea pig 381 -Beagle 76 -Rhesus monkey 16 -Cat 6
Why so many zebra fish?
There were 2.76m procedures last year, a 10% fall on 2021 and the lowest since 2002. Some 96% of experiments were described as ‘non-recovery’, sub-threshold, mild or moderate; 4% were ‘severe’. The number of individual creatures used were:
-Mice 596,800 -Zebra fish 108,446 -Rat 31,711 -Fowl 5,344 -Sheep 1,512 -Frog/toad 1,155 -Hamster 988 -Cattle 648 -Rabbit 616 -Pig 544 -Guinea pig 381 -Beagle 76 -Rhesus monkey 16 -Cat 6
Why so many zebra fish?